10 bedroom house

A magnificent Georgian House with fine landscaped gardens and lake at the heart of an idyllic country estate. Coach House, Victorian stable block, manege and paddocks, beautiful restored productive walled garden, 11 flats, cottages and farmhouses, parkland and woodland, working farms.

Grade II listed Newport House is one of Herefordshire's most important houses and is situated in a secluded and peaceful location in beautiful countryside. The current owners bought Newport House in 2004 and have worked tirelessly to reinvigorate and refurbish the house and estate to its former glory. With amazing energy and a skilled workforce they have refurbished the house, in particular the principal rooms, and pieced back together the estate so the house now sits perfectly in the heart of 427 acres.

Newport House has a fascinating history and has been an
important country property since medieval times. The place
name, then 'Neuport' has been recorded as early as 1254. Much of the earliest history has been linked, some 600 years ago, to Sir John Oldcastle, a Proto-Protestant hero and leader of the Lollards. Before his death in 1417, he was friends with Henry V and the character of Falstaff in Shakespeare's play was called Oldcastle after him. He certainly had lands in the Almeley area and hence the link.

Fast forward two and half centuries and there is the first sketched record of a house at Newport in 1683, although the property already had been owned by the Pember family since the 1580's. In 1712, the estate was sold to the Foley family of the Great Witley Estate near Worcester, and later Stoke Edith to the east of Hereford. Given their ownership of these fine houses, there is no surprise that the Foleys, for their second son, rebuilt the rambling medieval and Tudor house at Newport in circa 1715 into what we know as the house today.

The estate sits in a stunning rural position about a mile from Almeley. It is well serviced with day to day facilities in the market town of Kington with further opportunities in Hay on-Wye, Leominster and the Cathedral City of Hereford, just 15 miles to the south. Hereford provides good shopping and recreational facilities along with train services into London Paddington from 2hours 45 minutes.

There are excellent schools in the area including Hereford Cathedral School, Moore Park and Abberley as well as ones around Malvern and Cheltenham.

This particularly beautiful part of Herefordshire comprises wooded rolling farmland with the Wye Valley to the west and the beautiful Black Mountains in the distance. The area offers a special rural quality of life whilst having a diverse selection of events and opportunities in the vicinity including the literary festival at Hay-on-Wye, the theatre at Malvern and the gourmet centre of Ludlow, all within easy reach.

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